Keep in touch

Jack's 90th Birthday

In October 2014, Jack was admitted to St Bartholomew’s for “routine” heart care – an aortic valve replacement. He was 88 at the time.

The day before he was due to leave the hospital, his condition deteriorated and the cardiac team needed to perform emergency surgery – during which time his life expired for 10 minutes.

Now, 18 months on and fully recovered, his family arranged for a special 90th birthday surprise – a vintage 1950 black cab to drive Jack, who is an ex-London taxi driver, into the square at Barts to meet the cardiac team and present a cheque for £1,000.

Andy and Thérèse’s charitable wedding favours

Andy and his wife, Thérèse, very kindly chose to donate to us instead of having favours at their wedding.

“We decided that due to everything the hospital did for me and my brother that we want to thank them.

"I’ve raised various amounts for Barts Charity but we wanted to do something for them together.

"We knew straight away we should donate money instead of giving our guests wedding favours! We’ll continue to raise money for such a great charity.”